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Disabling GPS location in messages??

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hello,

We're currently evaluating an inReach Explorer+ in preparation for a larger enterprise deployment. During field testing, messages sent to both email and SMS recipients from the device produces an HTML link to "View the location" of the sender.

Does anyone know how to turn these off?

Thanks in advance!

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jredwild207 over 8 years ago +1 verified

You are able to disable location within messages, this is available to both Consumer and Enterprise accounts.
This can be configured on the web site thru the Account tab -> My Info and scrolling to SMS…

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0 Former Member over 8 years ago

(cont'd from my last post, this forum is very buggy!...)

twolpert I was just short of writing a "procmail" recipe on my Postfix mail server to strip the info out of the email. Fortunately, that effort isn't needed!

In closing, I'll just say that there are far more use cases for this platform beyond the SMS, email, and social messaging "my cool and remote location" to the contacts of the beholder. Being in the tech industry, having had professional experience in "prod dev", having an oddball marketing degree under my belt, and being an AVID outdoorsman - there were some core requirements that I was looking for in a platform such as this, that drew me to the product. I feel that the company has done a fine job of keeping the product's purposes aligned with its actual priorities in being a communication and navigation device FIRST, and everything else it offers second.

Thank you all!

0 twolpert over 8 years ago

The forums seem to dislike too many special characters of all flavors. Your post featured parens, braces, lots of quotes, and an equal sign. We're all learning to post very blandly until it get fixed. :p

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

jredwild207 THANK YOU!!! I'm glad Garmin put some thought around this! I owe you a case of virtual beer :D

(multi-quote isn't working)...

TotemLake Lake - I get how the device is perceived to be a "social" safety device, however, it is marketed as what it is = a "Handheld Satellite Communicator with GPS Navigation". The trendy "social" stuff is secondary and simply adds the component as an additional "feature set" to the core product. Not everyone is on board with the social aspects, so let's hope that Garmin / DeLorme stays on track with product development and marketing - not letting the "social" features take over the platform. Let us leave it to the facebooks of the world come out with their own sub-par product(s) that market the devices as "social" first and {insert practical and useful purposes} second).

The point was and is, it isn't going to be a practical tool to run a business from. There are other devices available now that can handle that much better with today's needs; particularly the ones you addressed.